SmartOS
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7recommend
1warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Aug 7, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“SmartOS[1] running hypervisor duties on zones and bhyve”
“It's worth mentioning at this point that one can still get (Open)Solaris descendent operating systems: OmniOS, SmartOS, and Tribblix.”
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“The whole thing just feels very thoughtfully put together”
runs SmartOS for a home serveron “SmartOS”
“I like the simplicity”
Not very experienced with Linux server administrationon “SmartOS”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“SmartOS is the core operating system for Triton datacenter”
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All comments 17
“as a former Triton/SmartOS user”
“SmartOS[1] running hypervisor duties on zones and bhyve”
“It's worth mentioning at this point that one can still get (Open)Solaris descendent operating systems: OmniOS, SmartOS, and Tribblix.”
rather deeper rabbit hole than installing 3 x proxmox, i think..but it exists...https://warewulf.org/ lots of other stuff will do the "boot from single image" part...say...https://fogproject.org/
“Their Github repos seem fairly active, from a quick look”
“we never had any dataloss from failed disks”
I did not know that! https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/a-new-chapter-begins-for-triton-and-smartos
“The whole thing just feels very thoughtfully put together”
“my problems with that started when i needed a lot more”
“I like the simplicity”
“I enjoy the CLI tooling very much.”
“I run SmartOS[1] and it's zone management is great and the webui they've been working on is pretty cool too.”
“like it for most of that time”
“The SmartOS release changelog for reference:”
“I use this on smartos”
“vanilla SmartOS[1] it's based on”
“Check out SmartOS, it's illumos/solaris based but I think you'll find it is a nice middle ground.”